A Song For Lyra by George RR Martin (book review)
Back in the early 1970s, George RR Martin had short stories in a variety of American SF magazines at the
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North Is The Night by Emily Rath (book review)
There has always been a tendency for storytellers to take traditional myths and folk tales and embroider, update or provide
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Animals by Geoff Ryman (book review).
‘Animals’ by Geoff Ryman is a horror novel and a family story with a large degree of anthropomorphism in it.
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Stingray W.A.S.P. Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson & Andrew Clements (book review).
Now, read instructions: Read alone and be very suspicious of anyone sounding like actor Peter Lorre at your door telling
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Fiasco (Uncharted Hearts 2) by Constance Fay (book review).
For most, the term ‘Romantasy’ will probably conjure up images of sexy vampires or werewolves in an urban fantasy setting
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The All-Star Companion edited by Roy Thomas (book review).
Getting early TwoMorrows books is problematic. Like their magazines, they carry the history of mostly American comicbooks and those who
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Vital Signals: Virtual Futures, Near-Future Fictions edited by Dan O’Hara, Tom Ward & Stephen Oram (book review).
‘Vital Signals’ has thirty stories in two hundred pages, so that’s about six pages per yarn, but it’s a bit
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Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries book 4) by Martha Wells (book review).
‘Exit Strategy’ by Martha Wells is the fourth novella in the Science Fiction ‘Murderbot Diaries’ series, which currently comprises five
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Rowany de Vere And A Fair Degree Of Frost by Chaz Benchley (book review).
Rowany de Vere is a secret agent working for the Colonial Service in the British Empire’s Mars colony. ‘It was
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JMB, The Unseen Art Of John M. Burns: A Surfeit Of Assassins 1888 by John Dakin (graphic novel review).
In his introduction to this rather long titled ‘JMB: The Unseen Art Of John M. Burns: A Surfeit Of Assassins
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